How to disconnect from a wifi network through adb?

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I understand we could turn off Wifi through the "adb shell svc wifi disable" command but I don't want to completely turn off Wifi. I want to disconnect from a particular ssid through adb. Is it possible?

Edit: I got a notification saying this question is identified as a dupe of this question: How to turn off Wifi via ADB?. It actually is not. As mentioned clearly in the first paragraph, I don't want to turn off wifi but want to simply disconnect from a particular network. This is like long pressing a network and tapping "Forget network". Essentially I want to simulate a condition of the user moving out of a wifi network without having to turn off wifi.

if you *want to simulate a condition of the user moving out of a wifi network* - you are doing it wrong. You should not be changing any wifi settings on the phone. Instead setup a testing wifi access point (any router supported by openwrt would work for the purpose) and control its wifi instead. — Alex P., Dec 24 '16 at 17:06

chgsilva · Answer 1 · 2017-11-04T20:03:22.200

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If you have root access, you can make it by using wpa_cli.

First, you can use the wpa_cli`s list_networks to get the network id of the network that you want to disconnect

$ adb shell
# wpa_cli
> list_networks
**network id** / ssid / bssid / flags
0   001aLinksys14081-2G any [CURRENT]

and then you just need to run the wpa_cli remove_network {network id}, where the {network id} parameter is the one that you got on the list_networks method.

edited Nov 04 '17 at 20:03

answered Jul 24 '17 at 14:27

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I'm trying programmatically but not working. Here is the snippet `val command = "adb shell wpa_cli remove_network ${wifiManager.connectionInfo.networkId}" val process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(arrayOf("su", command))` – Muhammad Babar May 28 '20 at 13:07

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 18 '21 at 18:45

One option is to use cmd wifi. For disconnecting from a Wi-Fi network, you can "forget" it like so:

adb shell cmd wifi list-networks
adb shell cmd wifi forget-network <networkId from list-networks>

You can view the help documentation for cmd wifi with:

adb shell cmd wifi -h

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 18 '21 at 12:52

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This command did it for me

docker exec -it $container_id /bin/bash -c "cd /root//shared-tools/android-sdk/platform-tools; ./adb shell 'svc wifi disable'"

answered Nov 18 '21 at 12:52

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OP said they didn't want to disable all of Wi-Fi using this command, only disconnect from a particular network. – Always Learning Nov 18 '21 at 18:45

score -3 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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You cannot. But, this will not be enough to satisfying your question, there is tricky way to connect to "other wifi". (Yes, it is not disconnect)

Install an app, and send command to the app via adb.

See this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/37303412/850347

I already build an app which does so and it's available here: https://github.com/steinwurf/adb-join-wifi

Once the app is installed, a wifi access point can be joined using the following ADB command:

adb shell am start -n com.steinwurf.adbjoinwifi/com.steinwurf.adbjoinwifi.MainActivity -e ssid [SSID] -e password_type [PASSWORD_TYPE] -e password [WIFI PASSWORD]

See this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/37303412/850347

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Dec 15 '16 at 01:58

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The OP clearly says that he knows the `svc wifi disable` command but doesn't want to use it! – TDG Dec 15 '16 at 17:40
@TDG Oh, yes, I found it. Thanks. – Stanley Ko Dec 16 '16 at 02:06
Thanks Stanley. I wish adb had a native way to do this. – Ganesh Subramanian Dec 19 '16 at 22:47

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